8 Reasons Sex Is Better After 50

Let’s get it on

by Amanda Gardner

Sex after menopause? Some experts will tell you it’s a downhill ride of waning sex drive and dried up hormones.

Sorry, we’re not buying it. We happen to think there are plenty of 50-plus babes who are rocking it just as much as in their younger days. (See Madonna.) And there’s no reason the rest of us shouldn’t too.

“You’re not bothered by menses. You’re not bothered by kids in the house. You can have sex in any room in the house,” says Irwin Goldstein, MD, the director of San Diego Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital. “You can have the greatest sex life on earth.”